Solution for Winbox on Windows 2000
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:07 am
When I tried to run Winbox on a Windows 2000 machine, I got the following error;
http://martin.brenner.de/files/winsock2_getaddrinfo.rar
You only need to extract the compiled WS2_32.DLL from the dllfiles folder, then place the DLL in the same folder as the Winbox executable. Leave the original Windows DLL alone.
Winbox now runs on Windows 2000
This is the Winsock 2 library and support for freeaddrinfo wasn't added until Windows XP but there is a solution. You can download a modified WS2_32.DLL from here;The procedure entry point freeaddrinfo could not be located in the dynamic link library WS2_32.DLL
http://martin.brenner.de/files/winsock2_getaddrinfo.rar
You only need to extract the compiled WS2_32.DLL from the dllfiles folder, then place the DLL in the same folder as the Winbox executable. Leave the original Windows DLL alone.
Winbox now runs on Windows 2000